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Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport

Ottawa, Canada · CYOW

CHANCE YOU STEP OFF ANY BOARDING SAFELY

99.999993%

This is the worldwide figure, not YOW's. We do not have a sourced fatal-accident rate for Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport, so we do not print one — Ottawa runs on the same global safety system as everywhere else, and that system is what the number measures.

SOURCE: MIT / ARNOLD BARNETT, 2024

AIRPORT FACTS

IATA / ICAOYOW / CYOW

CityOttawa

CountryCanada

Coordinates45.322, -75.669

EXAMPLE FLIGHTS — NOT YOW DEPARTURES

ALL FLIGHTS →

BA 249 LHR → GIG · 787-9 SAFE ✓ UA 92 EWR → LIS · 767-300 SAFE ✓ AA 100 JFK → LHR · 777-300ER SAFE ✓ JL 44 HND → SYD · A350-900 SAFE ✓

These are example flights from elsewhere on the site, not real YOW arrivals. Live per-airport schedules wire in with a flight-data API.

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BREATHE IN AND OUT

You're riding the safest form of travel humans have ever built.

That rumble or whine is normal — flaps, landing gear, engines changing power. Your pilots hear it every flight.

Turbulence is uncomfortable, never dangerous. It has never brought down a modern jet.

Right now, ~9,412 planes are in the air with you. Statistically, every single one lands safely.